Now, a new study that examines the world’s total supply of fresh water — accounting for its rivers and rain, ice and aquifers together — warns that Earth’s most essential resource is quickly ...

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ISRO-NASA's joint mission NISAR to launch on July 30 from Sriharikota. The Earth observation satellite will use dual-band ...

Strong ocean tides could be driving the growth of huge fractures in Antarctica’s ice shelves, new research suggests.

Arctic winters are melting fast. Scientists in Svalbard report rain, thaw, and rising risks in what was once reliably frozen terrain.

A rapidly retreating glacier in the Russian Arctic has revealed an ancient whale graveyard.

For over two decades, satellites have quietly documented a major crisis unfolding beneath our feet: Earth's continents are ...

For much of the planet’s recent geological history, ice ages came and went every 41,000 years. Then, during a period ...

Researchers have developed a novel method to detect and study how ice forms in mixed-phase clouds, significantly boosting ...

The ice cores could offer clues about a period known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition that has long puzzled scientists ...

As envisioned, cloud seeding in the rugged range on the Montana/Idaho border could boost snowpack and runoff for the beleaguered Big Hole River and other drought-stricken areas.